When building anything substantial, such as a house or bridge, you start by laying down a solid foundation.
Nothing changes this aspect of building brick by brick when you move from traditional constructions to application development and architecting your supporting infrastructure. Throw in Cloud terminology and you might think that the principles of a solid foundation are a bit flighty, but nothing is further from the truth.
The path to your cloud solutions lays paved with open technologies and here is why.
(Article: http://www.schabell.org/2017/02/digital-foundations-paving-road-to-cloud-solutions.html)
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Digital foundations - Paving the road to cloud solutions
1. DIGITAL FOUNDATIONS
Eric D. Schabell
Global Technology Evangelist, Red Hat
@ericschabell
Paving the road to Cloud solutions
2. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
SLOW DELIVERY NOT AGILE
NON SCALABLETOO COMPLEX
CHALLENGES IN A BI-MODAL WORLD
Existing applications
Current Infrastructure Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud-native applications
3. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
ACCELERATE SERVICE DELIVERY NOT AGILE
NON SCALABLETOO COMLEX
CHALLENGES IN A BI-MODAL WORLD
Accelerate delivery of environments to minutes instead of days or weeks
4. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
ACCELERATE SERVICE DELIVERY NOT AGILE
NON SCALABLE
CHALLENGES IN A BI-MODAL WORLD
Optimize IT with policy driven automation to increase efficiency
OPTIMIZE IT
5. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
ACCELERATE SERVICE DELIVERY
NON SCALABLE
CHALLENGES IN A BI-MODAL WORLD
OPTIMIZE IT
MODERNIZE DEVELOPMENT
AND OPERATIONS
Modernize development and operations to increase agility
6. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
ACCELERATE SERVICE DELIVERY
CHALLENGES IN A BI-MODAL WORLD
OPTIMIZE IT
MODERNIZE DEVELOPMENT
AND OPERATIONS
SCALABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Deliver scalable cloud-like infrastructure and applications
7. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Driving DevOps, Cloud Apps, and Infrastructure
OPEN SOURCE
8. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Driving DevOps, Cloud Apps, and Infrastructure
OPEN SOURCE
10. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
11. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
• Large engineering investment
12. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
• Large engineering investment
• Difficulty integrating disparate
projects and supporting lifecycle
13. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
• Large engineering investment
• Difficulty integrating disparate
projects and supporting lifecycle
• Not the core business
14. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
15. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
16. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
17. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
18. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
19. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
20. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
21. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
22. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
23. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
Enterprise support?
Input into new features?
Tested, stable, certified?
Rapid bug fixes?
Predictable lifecycles?
Advanced functionality?
76% of clouds are built on
open source technologies.
Linux Foundation’s Global 2013 Survey
CHOICES
25. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
26. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
• High price tag
27. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
• High price tag
• Vendor controlled innovation
28. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
• High price tag
• Vendor controlled innovation
• High exit cost due to
proprietary model
29. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
30. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
CHOICES
54% indicated that integrating and
protecting their cloud infrastructure
is their primary challenge
Information Week’s 2014 Private Cloud Survey
33. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
THE SOLUTION
● Accelerate Service Delivery
34. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
THE SOLUTION
● Accelerate Service Delivery
● Optimize I.T.
35. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
THE SOLUTION
● Accelerate Service Delivery
● Optimize I.T.
● Modernize Development and Operations
36. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
THE SOLUTION
● Accelerate Service Delivery
● Optimize I.T.
● Modernize Development and Operations
● Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
39. RED HAT CLOUD SOLUTIONS
OPEN INNOVATION LABS
COLLABORATION
Space to work,
innovate, and discuss
RESIDENCY
An eight-week accelerated
teaming engagement
COMMUNITY INCUBATION
Communities
supporting innovation
Here is a quick summary for those that just want the cliff notes.
The World is Changing
Businesses need a continuous competitive advantage
All businesses are software companies
Competition is everywhere
IT Needs
To increase relevance and reduce complexity (mode-1)
To create more agile processes and build programmable & scalable infrastructure and platforms (mode-2)
Red Hat Helps
Accelerate delivery
Optimize for efficiency
Modernize development and operations
Deliver scalable infrastructure
Only Red Hat Delivers
Innovation in the form of pure open source solutions
Integration with world class testing, support, and certification
We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.
In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.
We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.
In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.
We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.
In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.
We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.
In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.
We have observed this trend and I believe most organizations are trying to address four key problems across their emerging bi-modal world.
In mode-1 they are looking to increase relevance and reduce complexity. In order to increase relevance they need to deliver environments for developers in minutes instead of days or weeks. To reduce complexity, they need to implement policy driven automation to reduce the need for manual tasks.
In mode-2 they are looking to improve agility and increase scalability. In order to improve agility they need to create more agile development and operations processes and embrace new application architectures that allow for greater rates of change through decreased dependencies. To increase scalability, they need to implement infrastructure that utilizes an asynchronous design and is entirely API driven in order to change the admin to host ratio from a linear to an exponential model in order to increase scalability.
In order to make these examples more concrete, let’s look at each of them in more detail.
We hope this overview of solution areas allows you to understand *what* Red Hat can solve for it's customers. Equally as important as the "What" is the "How". After all, customers need to understand why they should choose Red Hat to solve these problems. One major consideration is that nearly all innovation in the areas of DevOps, cloud applications, and infrastructure are being driven by open source. Major projects such as Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible that are forming the basis of DevOps tools and cloud platforms are being driven in the open source community. Organizations need, and want, to align with these projects to ensure the greatest access to innovation.
We hope this overview of solution areas allows you to understand *what* Red Hat can solve for it's customers. Equally as important as the "What" is the "How". After all, customers need to understand why they should choose Red Hat to solve these problems. One major consideration is that nearly all innovation in the areas of DevOps, cloud applications, and infrastructure are being driven by open source. Major projects such as Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible that are forming the basis of DevOps tools and cloud platforms are being driven in the open source community. Organizations need, and want, to align with these projects to ensure the greatest access to innovation.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Until now, organizations needed to choose between solutions that provide EITHER integration or innovation. Organizations want to leverage the innovation taking place in the open source communities, but this is problematic as it requires understanding how to use all the open source technologies and integrating them on their own. If they take on the challenge of using open source projects directly they have to provide their own support, which is not their core business.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Alternatively, organizations could purchase an “integrated” solution from a vendor. The problem with this approach, until now, has been that vendors don’t provide access to open innovation or they wrap it in proprietary code. This leads to higher costs and innovation being limited to a single vendor.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Red Hat Cloud Suite is the solution for organizations looking to:
Accelerate Service Delivery
Optimize I.T.
Modernize Development and Operations
Deliver Scalable Infrastructure
It also does so in a way that leaves organizations open to all the innovation taking place in open source communities (where all innovation is happening for cloud and DevOps) while providing them enterprise support and tested and certified integrations between all components of cloud infrastructure, apps, and DevOps tools to greatly reduce the investment required.
Introduce Red Hat Cloud Suite and explain the products in the Suite here. Note that Ansible Tower is not included.
Introduce Red Hat Cloud Suite and explain the products in the Suite here. Note that Ansible Tower is not included.
https://url.corp.redhat.com/services-solutions
I hope this presentation is helpful in allowing you to understand the problems Red Hat Cloud Suite has allowed organizations to solve. To get you started, Red Hat Consulting offers a number of design workshops to rough out technologies, processes, and architectures while establishing a strategy for the solution across your organization's people, process, and technology.
• With our IT Operational Efficiency workshop, we help you establish an infrastructure foundation that optimizes your traditional IT capabilities and prepares you with the tools and techniques needed for agile IT success. We'll work toward driving new or improved capability around areas such as workload management, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. With a hands-on approach to mentoring and training, your team will receive the real-world skills needed to maintain and grow your environment independently.
• The cloud strategy and migration workshop is intended to help customers begin building a comprehensive approach to cloud adoption and begin mapping a robust, powerful bimodal infrastructure to meet your specific requirements, working toward bringing your end-user applications to the new infrastructure as needs dictate.
• Through an Accelerate DevOps workshop, we'll capture your requirements, identify use cases, and establish priorities to define actionable recommendations for DevOps implementation. The idea is to accelerate the delivery of value and capability and introduce tools and methodologies to improve your lifecycle management.
These workshops are part of a larger framework intended to assist customers at different stages of their journeys in not just adopting new technology, but increasing your knowledge and self-sufficiency.
Summarizing ….
The World is Changing
Businesses need a continuous competitive advantage
All businesses are software companies
Competition is everywhere
IT Needs
To increase relevance and reduce complexity
To create more agile processes and build programmable & scalable infrastructure and platforms
Red Hat Helps
Accelerate delivery
Optimize for efficiency
Modernize development and operations
Deliver scalable infrastructure
Only Red Hat Delivers
Innovation in the form of pure open source solutions
Integration with world class testing, support, and certification